Consider this. Scientists come up with a new machine that will enable you to remain in REM sleep and sustain you for the rest of your natural life. They have also fitted it with a function that could make you so you have a Lucid Dream all the time. Would you go into the Dream Machine for the rest of your life?
no
dreams a great and all, but i’d miss people
Only if I had nothing to live for. Or possibly felt that I could recreate it all in dreams. Personally I think I would like to gather alot more knowledge and experience before entering the dream world for good. And kowing it’s a dream I’d probably miss real people. After a long enough time that is. Though if I believed in shared dreaming it’d be less of a problem.
I would like it better if it could be aborted. I’d try spending long times in there. Not too long at first, there’s always the risk of a freakout. And a nightmare that is impossible to wake up from. Since the machine keeps you in REM sleep.
Oo, someone’s been watching Vanilla Sky 
Maybe so, but the Tom Cruise character doesn’t know he’s dreaming.
didn’t we have this question asked a while ago?
Because he had chosen to have his memory erased from when he fell asleep onthe street 
And we are talking hypothetical, cause there ain’t no machine like that.
what point is a life if it is not lived, but slept away in some fallacy?
Cats do it.
I wouldn’t do it- I would also miss people. The only way I’d consider it is if you could come in and out of the LD and real life as you please- but as it stands, no I woulldn’t
I would want to go in if I could come out when I want to. Anyways, I would get hungry if I’m in there for more than a day.
Umm they’d die if they didn’t, what’s your point?
Choosing to waste your life by sleeping is a little different than choosing to stay alive by sleeping as much as necessary for your species to live. 
I don’t get how you would miss people…
Well, I think there’s no actual point of living on Earth because we’ll all ultimately die with no purpose… but yeah, I would go into an LD machine any day. Make better friends. Eat better food.
This is a popular dilemma! I recall posting in three such Matrix topics before.
I’d do it.
i just think that after a while things would just not be as fun or as interesting as they were in the beginning, just because the entire time, in the back of your mind at least, you would know that none of it is real.
but yeah i guess hurricane, it just depends on what your beliefs are, you say there is no actual point in living on earth anyway, i believe that im supposed to be a light in this world. so i guess what it really comes down to is what are you living for, and how much do you care.
Who’s to say it isn’t real? This reality now, Is this real?
Twice already… 
Mmmh it would be cool if such a thing were portable so an long auto rides i would have something cool to do 
No i wouldnt spend my live in it i think…
I think it´s the WL that make LD´s so great…Remember Vanilla Sky: ”The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”
Ah yes, the dream is not “real”. This is less of a problem for, say, buddhists who believe that this waking life is like a dream, illusory. Seeing as all out experience of life is in our heads anyway, the step is not so big.
Oh yes, the dream will eventually get boring. Because there is nothing more to do, nothing to struggle for perhaps. The human need for drama will go unfulfilled… Or will it? Dreams are limitless. Can we get bored? Sure, there is nothing that prevents that. But waking life gets boring all the time. And you’ll get sick of that reality too. In fact dreams are alot less likely to be boring since they are so unstable and shifty. There is nothing to worry about either.
Still. “real” life has that quality of just “being real”. There is more to it that meets the eye, unlike dreams, that are illusions and deceptions. Hollow and shell like. There is nothing concrete in them.
Concrete reality has things we wouldn’t ever had thought of. And is in that regard richer. Yes, there are things in dreams we don’t think we’d think of, except that we did.
It really comes down to people. If there is anything that dreams don’t have, it is others. It is totally isolated. Unless you have different beliefs than mine. Considering how special and complicated a single person is, with life story and thoughts and beliefs of their own, this is something to be missed. All the people. So much substance. Even I, who consider myself a misanthrope, and also do quite well in isolation, would probably feel too lonely after a while.
I guess I appreciate the realness of things more than I used to. Damn mindfulness meditation teaching me to appreciate little things more.
It is real, but it’s in your head.
In many ways it’s better than life. You could learn lessons as you would in real life, you could have LOTS more fun.
To answer the question though, no, I wouldn’t. Not If i couldn’t come back into real life.